James wrote : >So why don't you agree with the 1-bit idea? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marchal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:50 AM >> To: Higgo James; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >> Subject: RE: Fabric of Reality >> >> >Well, there is one bit of information in the universe - 'something >> exists' >> >could be 1 or 0. It is 1. >> >James >> >> I don't agree. The power of the All Universe Hypothesis (AUH) or of the >> plenitude principle (arithmetical or not) is that the information >> is typically 1-person point of view information. >> >> So with AUH-like approach we have a 3-person O information theory >> explaining why the embedded observer lives with many (1-person) >> information. >> >> This is also one of the oldest argument in favour of the MWI appearing in >> this list. If I remember correctly, it was put by Hal Finney. >> >> Bruno
The idea is that there is no information in a classical tautology. Now either the universe exist or it doesn't exist. There is no information in that last sentence. I say there is no 3-information. You can see that ``or" as a kind of branching. In the branch where the universe exists the people believe there is information, but it is just 1-information. Of course in the branch where the universe doesn't exist, there is no people to realise it. This illustrates that 0 3-information (All universe exists, the empty theory which is satisfied in all models) could make 1 bit 1-information. So I agree with your 1-bit information, but it is 1-information, which is explainable in a O bit 3-information theory. (1-information = information from the first person point of view, 3-information = information from the third person point of view) Bruno
